Micsrostate Security in the Global System EU-Malta Relations

Malta a Linguistic Landscape

Encounters with Malta

The Literature of Malta- An Example of Unity in Diversity

University of Malta Annual Report 1999-2000

University of Malta Annual Report 1997-1998

Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Volume 9, Number 2

New Book on Waste Management in Small Island Developing States

Gozo Observer

A Select Bibliography on the Environment in the Reference and Melitensia Departments of the University of Malta Library
Compiled by Joanna J. Felice and Anton Pizzuto

Journal of Postcolonial Education

Carapecchia: Master of Baroque Architecture in Early Eighteenth Century Malta

Karissime Gotifride

Education 2000

Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies

Journal of Maltese Studies

Methodology

The Origins of Maltese Statehood: A Case Study of Decolonization in the Mediterranean

Oliver Friggieri book published in Bangladesh

Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education: Possibilities for Transformative Action

Gender Issues and Statistics

Women and Men in the Maltese Islands

Malta Collection of Italian Printed Music

Mid-Djarju ta' Sara

Competing Strategies of Socio-Economic Development for Small Islands

Inside/Outside

Creative Thinking: Towards Broader Horizons

Beyond Schooling

Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies Vol 3 No 2 1998

Maltese Language CD-ROM
 

Edited Petra Banchi and Peter Serracino Inglott,
Encounter Books 2000 AD, 408+

Many of the visitors who were in Malta for one reason or another have written about it, but by no means all.  On the other hand, some have come into contact with things Maltese without setting foot on the land.

Encounters with Malta is ably edited and offers a number of popular and well-informed contributors. The pictures on their own can educate - and there are many of those, both with and without colour. It is a portrait gallery of the famous and infamous:  Princess Poutiatine, Erroll Flynn, David Niven, Christopher Marlowe, G.K. Chesterton, the famous baritone Riccardo Stracciari, Victor Pasmore (with a stick), Desmond Morris, Pope John Paul II, Jose Carerras... A very succinct, but persipicacious view of Maltese history is given in the forward. The contents page gives sections, lists of names and pages and each section has its own introduction.

The excellent photography is by Kurt Arrigo and the late Anthony Cassar de Sain. Thomas Freller is assistant editor to the two general editors, while Ted McCuasland is art director.  With picture research by Petra Bianchi, Nicholas de Piro, Richard England, Thomas Freller, Emy Scicluna and Paul Xuereb, production is credited by Toni Cortis.

A new book by Arnold Cassola

List of contents
The earliest literary writings in Maltese:
An overview of the first known texts written by Maltese and in Maltese, namely the 15th century Cantilena by Caxaro and the 17th century Sonetto by Bonamico.

Maltese emigration and literature in the 19th century:
Emigration as exemplified in the writings of the early Maltese romantics:
nostalgia, the exile, the politics of emigration.

The vision of the Muslim in early Maltese poetry (18-19th centuries):
The myths and stereotypes of the Arab and the Muslim as expressed in the religious and historical nationalism of the early romantics.

Scicluna and Pisani: two romantic poets from Gozo:
The paradox of Mediterranean island culture:
the attachment by an unseverable umbilical cord and the severe limitation to freedom of movement and thought.

Italian and English influences on the works of the romantic poets Ruzar Briffa and George Zammit:
Palermitan reminiscences in Briffa's poems and the trilingual expression of sentiments in George Zammit.

Migration in contemporary Maltese fiction:
Examples of the exile as presented in Maltese modernist narratives.

In search of a personal and national identity:
the English poems of Victor Fenech:
The ëLondon Pictures' of Victor Fenech, an exponent of the Maltese poetic avant-garde.

Immigration in Malta: the literary and socio-cultural implications:
From immigrant impressions from 19th century literature to the role of culture in the new immigrant reality of contemporary Malta.

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The books' running theme is the concept of Unity in Diversity: the one and only real, authentic, and distinctive contribution which Malta can make in its forthcoming adventure in the European Union. The literature of Malta is characterised by its success in achieving the peaceful cohabitation of opposites in the fields of culture and literature.

Arnold Cassola, lecturer of Maltese and Comparative Literature at the University of Malta, is currently Secretary General of the European Federation of Green Parties.

This book should be of interest to students of Comparative Literature and various other fields, such as Semitic languages and Cultures, Mediterranean Studies, Commonwealth Literature, world literature in Italian and English.

240pp., paperback, 30 illustrations

The Literature of Malta - An Example of Unity in Diversity by Arnold Cassola is available from the publishers - Mark Anthony Vella at MINIMA PUBLISHERS.
For details about prices and delivery costs contact M.A. Vella at:
minipub@hotmail.com

The publication, edited by Professor Lino Briguglio, also contains a report of the expert meeting on waste management which the Islands and Small States Institute organised at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, in November 1999.

Background
In February 1999, the 20th session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) requested the Executive Director to "Prepare guidelines and programmes on waste minimisation, treatment and disposal applicable under the constraints of Small Island Developing States" and to "promote transfer of and facilitate access to scientific information and advise on technologies  appropriate to Small Island Developing States" (UNEP GC 20/19D). In response to this request, UNEP initiated a project in collaboration with the Islands and Small States Insitute and the Indian Ocean Commission to develop (i) guidelines for integrated waste management in SIDS (ii) a directory of environmentally sound technologies for the integrated management of solid, liquids and hazardous wastes in SIDS (iii) an overview of waste management in the IMA-SIDS and (iv) a regional waste minimisation strategy for the Indian Ocean SIDS. The book contains some of the outputs of this mandate.

The book is available from the Islands and Small States Institute, University Building, St Paul Street,  Valletta on Tel (356) 248218; email: islands@um.edu.mt.

Carapecchia: Master of Baroque Architecture in Early Eighteenth Century Malta is the title of a new book just published by Midsea Books Ltd on behalf of the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta. In his introduction to this publication on Baroque art and architecture, the author writes that "rarely has the spirit of the baroque been more powerfully evoked in malta than it is in the work of Romano Carapecchia".
Carapecchia (1666-1738) is considered to be the most important baroque architect to have worked in Malta.

In its six chapters and appendices, this new book on baroque art and architecture represents the fruit of primary research work carried out by its author over a number of years. Apart from containing beautifully presented illustrations of several buildings and hitherto unpublished architectural projects, the book focuses on some fascinating aspects of European baroque culture in the late 17th and early 18th centuries such as its interest in optics, theatre design and water engineering, all intended as a fitting celebration of Carapecchia's very considerable contribution towards the Europeanisation of Malta in the early 18th century.

Karissime Gotifride
editor Paul Xuereb

Distinguished foreign scholars like David Abulafia of Cambridge University, Salvatore Bono of the University of Perugia and Anthony Luttrell, a leading authority on the Order of St John in the Middle Ages, have contributed to a volume, edited by Paul Xuereb, which has been published by Malta University Press on the occasion of Professor Godfrey Wettinger's seventieth birthday.

Entitled "Karissime Gotifride", the volume includes fifteen scholarly papers, an introduction and a bibliography.  The Maltese authors include specialists from different areas, such as Victor Mallia-Milanes, Roger Ellul-Micallef, Stanley Fiorini, and Dominic Fenech.

A style manual for the writing of term papers, dissertations and theses

The purpose of this manual is twofold:
to facilitate the research process of those preparing a scientific work and
to guide students as well as authors and publishers to achieve clarity and consistency in matters of style and presentation.

Chapter one is a description of the book which, notwithstanding cyberspace, still remains the primary source for the researcher.
Chapter two suggests a step by step method to be followed in researching and writing a paper.
Chapters three to seven are a guide to style and presentation.
Chapter three describes text formatting or the mechanics of writing;
chapter four discusses references in general;
chapter five illustrates references in particular, including specimens of electronic publication and on-line sources;
chapter six is a guide to the compilation of a bibliography; and
chapter seven outline the norms to be followed in the presentation of the paper.
Chapter eight is a select bibliography of sources.
For further information please contact Rev. Dr. Joseph Bezzina
email: jbez1@um.edu.mt

The Origins of Maltese Statehood: A Case Study of Decolonization in the Mediterranean, lavishly produced by PEG Ltd of San Gwann, is presented in a richly documented and annotated 17-chapter, 728-page casebound edition, and includes an introduction by His Excellency the President of Malta, Professor Guido de Marco, who describes it as "this exceptional book". Professor Frendo's original findings are mainly from the British archives, where the Malta Independence became accessible to researchers less than two years ago, but a historical background of Malta in the late 1950s and early 1960s is given. Through American and NATO contacts Professor Frendo has also seen some recently declassified NATO and US papers concerning Malta in the 1960s, in addition to the maltese archives. He interviewed several protagonists of the Malta Independence story over the years.

'Possibilities' focuses on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education: Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire. Both regarded forms of adult education as having an important role to play in the struggle for liberation from oppression. Peter Mayo examines the extent to which their combined insights can provide the foundation for a theory for our own times of transformative adult education.
Dr Mayo focuses on three aspects of the pedagogical process: social relations, sites of practice and the content of adult education. He analyses their ideas and identifies some of the limitations in their work, notably the critical issues of gender and race.
The book concludes with a seminal attempt at synthesising the ideas of Gramsci and Friere. This is done in the context of other adult educators' more recent contributions in order to develop a theory of transformative adult education including an assessment of its feasibility in the era of globalisation and neoliberalism.